Jean AKA Jeannie AKA Jeanie is a film, book, and magazine reviewer for a national magazine. Most of Jean’s work is done through email, which means he doesn't have to go into the office.
On a trip to find a gift for his girlfriend, Jean found an empty Genie Bottle. Upon picking up this bottle, Jean became the bottle’s new genie-powered occupant. Not only was Jean turned into a genie, but the bottle turned him into what he believed a genie of the bottle should look like. Which, due to his fascination with a classic 60s TV show, turned him into a busty blonde woman.
That is a very bad translation. A better translation is:
If you got everything you ever wanted, without any strife or trouble, you would just wish for more. But on the long road of life, disappointments always comes, so learn some humility, smile and be thankful for what you got. Still life is beautiful, all we must learn of this, what we wish the most, we won’t get.
Ummm… how does a verbatim quote in the original language count as a “bad translation”? Still, look at our current crop of overtly sociopathic narcistic megalomanic tech billionaires. More is never enough for some.
Well looking at the original text again I see that my translation from memory was also not all that great. For instance I thought he said “smuk” (beautiful) but instead he said “så” thusly, which kind of changes things.
Regardless the point of this amazing quote is that we should never just chase to get more and more, as it would never be enough, we need to accept what we have and be grateful for it.
The American oligarchs, well they are of course some of the lowest creatures on this planet.
But that reminds me of another quote, one from Aristotle, he said that the ideal was to own two olive trees, because one makes one too vulnerable and three makes one too rich. And if you are too rich, you don’t care about others, for the simply reason that you don’t need others, and if you are too poor, well then you don’t have the fortitude to not care, as they have no control over their own lives.
The middle class, that is the best, that is where the heart of every society lies
Along similar lines, Thomas Jefferson would say that it is best to work your own farm—in other words, neither be too poor to have a farm, nor so wealthy that you have other people do all of the work for you while you do none.
I’m sure Guano’s off being a pompous dick somewhere. He has no reason to intervene as long as a genie is obeying her master and the master hasn’t made their third wish. However – and this a big however — three wish stories are supposed to be cautionary tales. There’s plenty of stories of genies wreaking horrific revenge on abusive masters after that third wish is made.
Guano appeared to check out the new genie long before there might have been an issue with her obeying Neil (page 30). It may have been part of his Lord duties. Given that he would be a new genie’s overseer (which would include Neil-genie) it would be logical that he would pop in now again to ensure the three wishes were granted. He didn’t threaten Jeanie with being bottled up until after she kicked him in the nads (page 32).
@mike Judging by cases like Araceli, Rouyaa and Kazom, and even Asha I think, there isn’t really any pressure for the Genies to grant their three wishes to their masters. Guano was pressuring Jean to get over with Neil, due to the bad first impression they had of each other. Meaning that Guano was eager to take her out for proper genie training as soon as possible, but Neil’s wishes had to come first. So, basically, assuming that Natalie now, had a more polite experience with Guano than Jean, she may had screw herself to be stuck with THIS Jean, just because she didn’t kick Guano in the nuts like Jeanie did.
Wanting something must mean that thing has to exist. He can’t ‘want immortality’ and have it… but if what he wants exists, then he can (probably) have it. A genie can make the impossible possible… but his wish makes the improbable a certainty…
That depends on the definition of “immortality” used. He can’t get literally infinite lifespan (as in, will outlive all of the matter in the universe), but being unaging and in perfect health and capable of lasting several thousand years if he avoids a violent end? Probably yes.
Comic #7, a genie who stays with her master after three wishes have been granted keeps “diminished genie powers”. So it’s probably similar to Jeanie hanging around with Neil, except evil Jean can actually command Natalie to do what he wants.
Ok, I’m calling it now. Jeanie will force Jean to use his wish to force Jeanie to have sex with him, and one way or another it gets twisted to mean that Jean made a wish to screw himself, resulting in him (in a Jeanie-lookalike form) having sex with his prom night self.
“I wish for you to screw me” is very easily twisted to the slang usage of your screwed and rather than sex having her ruin his life. “You wished to be screwed master, well the police now believe your a serial killer and necrophiliac not to mention all the rapes and robberies. You are indeed most thoroughly screwed.”
Pilgrim right, yes, Jeanie knows that they are technically the same person, but, they are also now different persons too, with different desires also. Jeanie verbiage is starting indicate that she is starting to see herself as a different person to her male human self now. Just about everybody on this forum has already come to the conclusion that Jeanie is a female genie now and not a mortal man, it Jeanie turn to now come to that conclusion now too. It been a long and hard battle, but, Jeanie is just now coming to that she a female also.
Hmm, good question. Although they are the same soul, can a genie be the master of another genie and have wishes granted as a mortal can, or does Jeanie becoming a genie negate that,
That’s a dumb loophole, like “I wish for unlimited wishes.” Not sure how the genie lords allow that.
Albeit a clever genie could still twist the crap of those wants. Want for unlimited, awesome sex? Sure. Although it would be a shame if the quantity exceeds the limits of your human body, and your heart stops.
You have to be careful how you word your wishes if you’re going to pull something like that. There’s an entire industry that operates on squeezing out possible loopholes, as demonstrated here:
That was an impressive comic circumventing & demolishing the trope altogether xD.
I suppose I know what wishes I’ll make if I happened to end up in that miraculously specific scenario now, even though I would likely blunder it in practice anyway & a hypothetical genie may not necessarily allow the ideal to play out like that ^^’.
I’m pretty sure that several of those wishes would literally not work. Its not a “I wont grant this, its I can’t grant this.” situation. I’m also pretty sure that smug wish maker is going to come to a horrible end because they are going to need to spend the rest of their life avoiding the term “I wish.” or it’ll be automatically granted regardless of whether they’re drunk or lashing out in anger or any other circumstances. Not to mention he’s screwed over every person in the world who might have gotten wishes and any potential good djinn.
Yeah, a hypothetical genie may be far more limited in worldly scope, either on binding protocols, principles, or power. I suppose the semi self-made wish granter could make a fail safe confirmatory phrase, particular action, or something similar added on to prevent themselves from royally destroying the parts of reality they hold dear on a reckless whim. Would be more inconvenient, but reducing regrettable wishes would be preferable. Getting drunk could put a monkey wrench in any self safeguard though, so that would either mean: make getting drunk impossible or improbable due to heightened tolerance, dropping the vice altogether, or some additional countermeasure that’s not either of the polar extremes. The latter is selfish & morally malicious, as genies poofed out of existence & some wishers may have been stranded in inescapable quagmires, but reducing wish granting reality warpers that could out compete & threaten their own may be a safe approach in the long run – they’d have a firm monopoly on functional magic that would be less likely to be toppled. They’d be able to make themselves into what’s effectively an otherworldly genie god, filling the niche they vanquished through something like worldly petitionary prayer in monotheistic traditions, making it far less isolated to elusive special bottle rubbers.
That issue was addressed, Senko, in his third wish — “…provided I deliberately and consciously intend to invoke and/or request them…” — simply using the phrase “I wish” would be insufficient to trigger a wish.
I agree with Sean here, there are safe guards against that happening in this genie series. I read a My Genie series where they didn’t have those kinds of protection of not having to own the bottle or there being protection from just any wish being honored because, it violated the genie rules that say you can’t make that wish isn’t allowed for them to do it, like raising the dead or making someone fall in love with some.
In this My Genie or Djinn series, it the genie heard anyone say I wish, the the Djinn would honor the wish and this guy went to school wish his Djinn and just about everybody was say I wish. You had guys turning into girls and guy and girls turning into animals or slave, etc. Our guy that owned the Djinn, had to try and back track who did what and in which order that it was done to try and undo the whole mess.
In this series the answer is: NO! Not happening and nor do we want it to happen either.
Still seems iffy and selfish to me. Not to mention he’s just stuffed around with something he doesn’t know all the rules of. Was that djinn actually going to screw him over? Was there some delicate magical balance that’s now gone? Way too short sighted but that’s just my opinion.
@Larry
When did anyone turn into an animal or is that a different series and if so which please?
Usually because it either goes horribly badly in the end e.g. the prince who spent his entire life playing a card game or because they’re wishing for something that is simply not allowed. “I wish for more wishes.” “No.”. “I wish everything I want will be granted.” “Again, no.”
Or change the venue a bit and turn Jean into a hot sexy and really horny girl that can’t stay away from guys, like she did to the Greek Sea Captain that tried to make Jeanie his wife. Then let Jean burn in Hell for it!
Neil, even as a genie, you are a doofus. I’m betting that Genatte hasn’t conjured up the genie manual, and Jean doesn’t strike me as the manual reading type. Jean has hornswoggled Genatte into thinking that “I get whatever I want” isn’t an endless wish. In fact, she’s been granting wishes that she is not, in fact, magically compelled to obey.
I also very much doubt that Jeanie will be compelled to grant Jean’s wishes while her Master, Neil, is within reach.
I wonder what Genatte will do when she learns that she’s been tricked.
I’m inclined to agree with you that Jean used up his 3 wishes a long time ago and she’s down in the genie files as a bottle djinn who chose to remain with her master granting his wishes.
More likely, ‘Genatte” had no reason to summon up the genie manual because, unlike Neil, Jean never wished for it. Without the manual she’s basically running on ignorance of what can and cannot be done. She probably believes Jean’s catch-all is valid.
Jeanie just doesn’t want to admit this is herself in every way except appearance. She was already a self serving, self-important, selfish, petty, spiteful, blindly arrogant, hedonistic man-child. “Don’t you think of anyone but yourself?”
This is EXACTLY how she’d have acted if places were reversed.
I can see pre-geniefication Jean being pushy and trying to get into the pants of every hot girl that he can think of, but I do not think that he would cross the line into “would commit rape if he thought he could get away with it”. That’s kind of “Light Yagsmi with the Death Note” level stuff.
Thing is, I doubt Jean thinks of it in terms of “rape”. He’s got a genie; genies grant wishes; Jean really only has one wish. i don’t have time to look up the strip right now, but it’s been suggested that yes indeed, this is one of the wishes bottle genies traditionally grant–although even Guano acknowledged that that was a rather medieval rule. In any case, I doubt Genatte put up more than a token resistance, if that.
So then Jean is willing to magically compel Jeanie where he would not do so with a human woman, because she is a genie and not a human, and he thus sees her role as being to serve.
@ijuinkun: “[Jeanie] is a genie and not a human, and [Jean] thus sees her role as being to serve.” For better or worse, Jean is exactly correct. Likely, only Jeanie’s selfishness, as pig-headed as Jean’s own, keeps her from trying too hard to please Neil, her true Master.
I’ve also got to say, Genatte doesn’t really seem all that distressed at Jean’s embrace. She’s not reciprocating, of course, but she seems slightly exasperated rather than frightened, and I’d be hard pressed to say whether she’s more irritated with Jean than Jeanie. I’m guessing she’s never tried to resist in any meaningful way.
@Nobody: Exactly, yes. And exactly why Jeanie needs a Master like Neil, whose entire avocation is devoted to a goal larger than himself. I’m hoping, strongly, that the whole point of this storyline is that both Neil and Jeanie realize that and begin to come to terms with it; to begin to think of themselves as two halves of a whole, as a dyad, as “genie&master”, if you will, rather than as a “master” and a “genie”. (And honestly? I think Neil is being almost as selfish as Jeanie is, by refusing to accept his responsibilities as Master.)
I have a feeling it’s going to come down to the wording of that “catch-all” clause and, maybe, the fact that Jean hasn’t seen the male Neil who’s still stuck in Jeanie’s bottle.
…So gonna call it now, the only way to fix the timeline is for Jeanie (or at least some version of him/her) to actually do the nasty in the past-y with Prom!Jean.
Unless Natalie has to take another one for the team…
The way they fix the timeline is for Jeannie to poof back to herself in the past of the Prime Timeline and go ‘DON’T TIME TRAVEL IT MESSES EVERYTHING UP’ to her past-present self. That’s how you break the butterfly effect cycle. What happens then depends on what kind of time travel rules the comic chooses to play by.
If it plays by the equivalent of ‘Back to the Future’ rules, preventing herself from time traveling will cause THIS Jeannie and Neil to be erased, as well as all other timelines with deviations from the Prime Timeline. No Stripper Natalie or Fat Jean, no Creeper Jean and Genie Natalie. All that would exist would be the Jeanie who was prevented from going back in time.
If it plays by Multiverse Rules where established timelines are not erased, then Stripper Natalie and Fat Jean’s lives continue to play out (with Stripper Natalie now in Cleveland with Fat Jean), and Creeper Jean and Genie Natalie continue on with Natalie being Jean’s sex slave, and a timeline where Jeannie and Neil DON’T go back in time. This is the messiest route because then it leaves THIS Jeannie and Neil more or less adrift in Time-Space without a way to truly get back to THEIR timeline, thus they become a loose end.
Which could have spin-off potential but at the same time, eh. The easiest way for the mess to be resolved is that once the Disruption Point is prevented, everything that happened is erased.
By the way, Jeanie, you self centered, vengeful ass, if you’d like to do something useful for a change, poof your true Master, Neil, out of the bottle so he can take possession of it, have him ask–ASK–Genatte to poof herself into it, then poof all three of you, with the bottle, away to someplace safe; that is, anywhere out of Jean’s reach.
He made only 2 wishes with a clause he is smart. What did you tell him on prom night exactly?
*facepalms myself silly* Jeanie you bonebrained, blockheaded, bimboed BOZO!!!! you REALLY goofed up this time!
Wasn’t that expected?
I’m hoping we get a flashback though so we can see just how boneheaded it was.
We did see – she told him “you can even say you boinked* me silly. This way you get an awesome rep, and no one will doubt it because I won’t deny it.”
* yes, it was censored from the original.
https://jeaniebottle.com/archives/comic/jeanie-bottle-677
We actually changed that because people complained, heh. The original version was not censored.
“But Charlie, don’t forget what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he always wanted…He lived happily ever after”
It’s almost an infinite wish … but I wonder of the limitations. A wish you can’t control tends to be trouble in the end …
That is a very bad translation. A better translation is:
If you got everything you ever wanted, without any strife or trouble, you would just wish for more. But on the long road of life, disappointments always comes, so learn some humility, smile and be thankful for what you got. Still life is beautiful, all we must learn of this, what we wish the most, we won’t get.
Ummm… how does a verbatim quote in the original language count as a “bad translation”? Still, look at our current crop of overtly sociopathic narcistic megalomanic tech billionaires. More is never enough for some.
Well looking at the original text again I see that my translation from memory was also not all that great. For instance I thought he said “smuk” (beautiful) but instead he said “så” thusly, which kind of changes things.
Regardless the point of this amazing quote is that we should never just chase to get more and more, as it would never be enough, we need to accept what we have and be grateful for it.
The American oligarchs, well they are of course some of the lowest creatures on this planet.
But that reminds me of another quote, one from Aristotle, he said that the ideal was to own two olive trees, because one makes one too vulnerable and three makes one too rich. And if you are too rich, you don’t care about others, for the simply reason that you don’t need others, and if you are too poor, well then you don’t have the fortitude to not care, as they have no control over their own lives.
The middle class, that is the best, that is where the heart of every society lies
Along similar lines, Thomas Jefferson would say that it is best to work your own farm—in other words, neither be too poor to have a farm, nor so wealthy that you have other people do all of the work for you while you do none.
I get the feeling Natalie won’t mind remaining a female genie as long as she’s far away from Jean.
Hasn’t made his third wish? What happened to Guano?
I’m sure Guano’s off being a pompous dick somewhere. He has no reason to intervene as long as a genie is obeying her master and the master hasn’t made their third wish. However – and this a big however — three wish stories are supposed to be cautionary tales. There’s plenty of stories of genies wreaking horrific revenge on abusive masters after that third wish is made.
Guano appeared to check out the new genie long before there might have been an issue with her obeying Neil (page 30). It may have been part of his Lord duties. Given that he would be a new genie’s overseer (which would include Neil-genie) it would be logical that he would pop in now again to ensure the three wishes were granted. He didn’t threaten Jeanie with being bottled up until after she kicked him in the nads (page 32).
@mike Judging by cases like Araceli, Rouyaa and Kazom, and even Asha I think, there isn’t really any pressure for the Genies to grant their three wishes to their masters. Guano was pressuring Jean to get over with Neil, due to the bad first impression they had of each other. Meaning that Guano was eager to take her out for proper genie training as soon as possible, but Neil’s wishes had to come first. So, basically, assuming that Natalie now, had a more polite experience with Guano than Jean, she may had screw herself to be stuck with THIS Jean, just because she didn’t kick Guano in the nuts like Jeanie did.
A good point I hadn’t considered.
Is there seriously not a rule against that? That seems like it undermines the entire “3 wishes” thing.
That what the Genie Lord is for, to enforce that rule, that why everyone asking, where Guano?
There are some inherent limitations I suspect.
Wanting something must mean that thing has to exist. He can’t ‘want immortality’ and have it… but if what he wants exists, then he can (probably) have it. A genie can make the impossible possible… but his wish makes the improbable a certainty…
… of course if he wants another genie bottle ….
That depends on the definition of “immortality” used. He can’t get literally infinite lifespan (as in, will outlive all of the matter in the universe), but being unaging and in perfect health and capable of lasting several thousand years if he avoids a violent end? Probably yes.
Comic #7, a genie who stays with her master after three wishes have been granted keeps “diminished genie powers”. So it’s probably similar to Jeanie hanging around with Neil, except evil Jean can actually command Natalie to do what he wants.
I guess we’re going back to that hotel room for a third time.
Ok, I’m calling it now. Jeanie will force Jean to use his wish to force Jeanie to have sex with him, and one way or another it gets twisted to mean that Jean made a wish to screw himself, resulting in him (in a Jeanie-lookalike form) having sex with his prom night self.
“I wish for you to screw me” is very easily twisted to the slang usage of your screwed and rather than sex having her ruin his life. “You wished to be screwed master, well the police now believe your a serial killer and necrophiliac not to mention all the rapes and robberies. You are indeed most thoroughly screwed.”
I think the right phrasing is “You’re me? Well, I want to have sex with myself as a beautiful girl.”
“What you want, you get.”
And back to the hotel room he goes, but as the “exchange student”.
Since Jeanie is Jean, can she just use his wish?
I know pronouns aren’t intended for this situation, but Jeanie is referring to Jean in the third person now.
When confronted with an evil doppelganger I imagine you would probably not identify with it as yourself.
Pilgrim right, yes, Jeanie knows that they are technically the same person, but, they are also now different persons too, with different desires also. Jeanie verbiage is starting indicate that she is starting to see herself as a different person to her male human self now. Just about everybody on this forum has already come to the conclusion that Jeanie is a female genie now and not a mortal man, it Jeanie turn to now come to that conclusion now too. It been a long and hard battle, but, Jeanie is just now coming to that she a female also.
Hmm, good question. Although they are the same soul, can a genie be the master of another genie and have wishes granted as a mortal can, or does Jeanie becoming a genie negate that,
Page 67, Jeanie confirms that a genie cannot own anything, so no, a genie cannot “master” another genie.
what did Rouyaa say to Andy, “How long can you go without saying I Wish.” Jeanie can be tricky.
That’s a dumb loophole, like “I wish for unlimited wishes.” Not sure how the genie lords allow that.
Albeit a clever genie could still twist the crap of those wants. Want for unlimited, awesome sex? Sure. Although it would be a shame if the quantity exceeds the limits of your human body, and your heart stops.
You have to be careful how you word your wishes if you’re going to pull something like that. There’s an entire industry that operates on squeezing out possible loopholes, as demonstrated here:
http://www.semperbufo.com/media/sbseqart_three-wishes.html
That was an impressive comic circumventing & demolishing the trope altogether xD.
I suppose I know what wishes I’ll make if I happened to end up in that miraculously specific scenario now, even though I would likely blunder it in practice anyway & a hypothetical genie may not necessarily allow the ideal to play out like that ^^’.
I’m pretty sure that several of those wishes would literally not work. Its not a “I wont grant this, its I can’t grant this.” situation. I’m also pretty sure that smug wish maker is going to come to a horrible end because they are going to need to spend the rest of their life avoiding the term “I wish.” or it’ll be automatically granted regardless of whether they’re drunk or lashing out in anger or any other circumstances. Not to mention he’s screwed over every person in the world who might have gotten wishes and any potential good djinn.
Yeah, a hypothetical genie may be far more limited in worldly scope, either on binding protocols, principles, or power. I suppose the semi self-made wish granter could make a fail safe confirmatory phrase, particular action, or something similar added on to prevent themselves from royally destroying the parts of reality they hold dear on a reckless whim. Would be more inconvenient, but reducing regrettable wishes would be preferable. Getting drunk could put a monkey wrench in any self safeguard though, so that would either mean: make getting drunk impossible or improbable due to heightened tolerance, dropping the vice altogether, or some additional countermeasure that’s not either of the polar extremes. The latter is selfish & morally malicious, as genies poofed out of existence & some wishers may have been stranded in inescapable quagmires, but reducing wish granting reality warpers that could out compete & threaten their own may be a safe approach in the long run – they’d have a firm monopoly on functional magic that would be less likely to be toppled. They’d be able to make themselves into what’s effectively an otherworldly genie god, filling the niche they vanquished through something like worldly petitionary prayer in monotheistic traditions, making it far less isolated to elusive special bottle rubbers.
That issue was addressed, Senko, in his third wish — “…provided I deliberately and consciously intend to invoke and/or request them…” — simply using the phrase “I wish” would be insufficient to trigger a wish.
I agree with Sean here, there are safe guards against that happening in this genie series. I read a My Genie series where they didn’t have those kinds of protection of not having to own the bottle or there being protection from just any wish being honored because, it violated the genie rules that say you can’t make that wish isn’t allowed for them to do it, like raising the dead or making someone fall in love with some.
In this My Genie or Djinn series, it the genie heard anyone say I wish, the the Djinn would honor the wish and this guy went to school wish his Djinn and just about everybody was say I wish. You had guys turning into girls and guy and girls turning into animals or slave, etc. Our guy that owned the Djinn, had to try and back track who did what and in which order that it was done to try and undo the whole mess.
In this series the answer is: NO! Not happening and nor do we want it to happen either.
Still seems iffy and selfish to me. Not to mention he’s just stuffed around with something he doesn’t know all the rules of. Was that djinn actually going to screw him over? Was there some delicate magical balance that’s now gone? Way too short sighted but that’s just my opinion.
@Larry
When did anyone turn into an animal or is that a different series and if so which please?
It was somebody else doing a genie series that I was talking about. I was not referring to this series.
Huh…A Catch-All Clause during one of the 2 wishes? Smart. Makes you wonder why no one ever thinks of these things in other stories with genies.
Usually because it either goes horribly badly in the end e.g. the prince who spent his entire life playing a card game or because they’re wishing for something that is simply not allowed. “I wish for more wishes.” “No.”. “I wish everything I want will be granted.” “Again, no.”
Suppose she blinked him to understand the whole situation (as Jeanie & Neil experienced it) and he’ll then probably be a bit more helpful?
How would Jeanie convince Jean that she is him? Even if she made him experience her own memories of it, he would just think she had made it up.
Jean: I’ve wanted to tap your ass for years. Finding out you’re me only turns it into masturbation!
Well, we know Jean has no problem “boinking” his best friend (turned into hot girl).
I Doubt he would care about “boinking” a girl version of himself.
Well, I called it about him still having one wish left. I’ll admit I never would have thought about some catch-all clause to it though.
Then get an extra sloth.
My thought exactly.
Or change the venue a bit and turn Jean into a hot sexy and really horny girl that can’t stay away from guys, like she did to the Greek Sea Captain that tried to make Jeanie his wife. Then let Jean burn in Hell for it!
Jean feed into his own ego before it became his present ego with different results so time for a third time trip.
Neil, even as a genie, you are a doofus. I’m betting that Genatte hasn’t conjured up the genie manual, and Jean doesn’t strike me as the manual reading type. Jean has hornswoggled Genatte into thinking that “I get whatever I want” isn’t an endless wish. In fact, she’s been granting wishes that she is not, in fact, magically compelled to obey.
I also very much doubt that Jeanie will be compelled to grant Jean’s wishes while her Master, Neil, is within reach.
I wonder what Genatte will do when she learns that she’s been tricked.
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. Or in this case, tricked.
I’m inclined to agree with you that Jean used up his 3 wishes a long time ago and she’s down in the genie files as a bottle djinn who chose to remain with her master granting his wishes.
More likely, ‘Genatte” had no reason to summon up the genie manual because, unlike Neil, Jean never wished for it. Without the manual she’s basically running on ignorance of what can and cannot be done. She probably believes Jean’s catch-all is valid.
That was my take too. She’s too nice to have even considered twisting the wording of Jean’s wishes.
I think you may be misinterpreting what Genie-Neil said.
@Robert: Who are you replying to? And misinterpreted how, exactly?
I wonder if he used the first wish to fully grok the rules to be able to pull off such a tricky second wish.
Jeanie just doesn’t want to admit this is herself in every way except appearance. She was already a self serving, self-important, selfish, petty, spiteful, blindly arrogant, hedonistic man-child. “Don’t you think of anyone but yourself?”
This is EXACTLY how she’d have acted if places were reversed.
I can see pre-geniefication Jean being pushy and trying to get into the pants of every hot girl that he can think of, but I do not think that he would cross the line into “would commit rape if he thought he could get away with it”. That’s kind of “Light Yagsmi with the Death Note” level stuff.
Thing is, I doubt Jean thinks of it in terms of “rape”. He’s got a genie; genies grant wishes; Jean really only has one wish. i don’t have time to look up the strip right now, but it’s been suggested that yes indeed, this is one of the wishes bottle genies traditionally grant–although even Guano acknowledged that that was a rather medieval rule. In any case, I doubt Genatte put up more than a token resistance, if that.
So then Jean is willing to magically compel Jeanie where he would not do so with a human woman, because she is a genie and not a human, and he thus sees her role as being to serve.
@ijuinkun: “[Jeanie] is a genie and not a human, and [Jean] thus sees her role as being to serve.” For better or worse, Jean is exactly correct. Likely, only Jeanie’s selfishness, as pig-headed as Jean’s own, keeps her from trying too hard to please Neil, her true Master.
I’ve also got to say, Genatte doesn’t really seem all that distressed at Jean’s embrace. She’s not reciprocating, of course, but she seems slightly exasperated rather than frightened, and I’d be hard pressed to say whether she’s more irritated with Jean than Jeanie. I’m guessing she’s never tried to resist in any meaningful way.
@Nobody: Exactly, yes. And exactly why Jeanie needs a Master like Neil, whose entire avocation is devoted to a goal larger than himself. I’m hoping, strongly, that the whole point of this storyline is that both Neil and Jeanie realize that and begin to come to terms with it; to begin to think of themselves as two halves of a whole, as a dyad, as “genie&master”, if you will, rather than as a “master” and a “genie”. (And honestly? I think Neil is being almost as selfish as Jeanie is, by refusing to accept his responsibilities as Master.)
Do Natalie’s boobs look a lot bigger? Is this because she got turned into a Djinn?
Could be.
Well, Natalie is Jean’s idea of a Djinn I would guess. Or that’s what the first wish was for.
First time I ever heard of someone actually wanting to go (boink) themselves
I have a feeling it’s going to come down to the wording of that “catch-all” clause and, maybe, the fact that Jean hasn’t seen the male Neil who’s still stuck in Jeanie’s bottle.
…So gonna call it now, the only way to fix the timeline is for Jeanie (or at least some version of him/her) to actually do the nasty in the past-y with Prom!Jean.
Unless Natalie has to take another one for the team…
The way they fix the timeline is for Jeannie to poof back to herself in the past of the Prime Timeline and go ‘DON’T TIME TRAVEL IT MESSES EVERYTHING UP’ to her past-present self. That’s how you break the butterfly effect cycle. What happens then depends on what kind of time travel rules the comic chooses to play by.
If it plays by the equivalent of ‘Back to the Future’ rules, preventing herself from time traveling will cause THIS Jeannie and Neil to be erased, as well as all other timelines with deviations from the Prime Timeline. No Stripper Natalie or Fat Jean, no Creeper Jean and Genie Natalie. All that would exist would be the Jeanie who was prevented from going back in time.
If it plays by Multiverse Rules where established timelines are not erased, then Stripper Natalie and Fat Jean’s lives continue to play out (with Stripper Natalie now in Cleveland with Fat Jean), and Creeper Jean and Genie Natalie continue on with Natalie being Jean’s sex slave, and a timeline where Jeannie and Neil DON’T go back in time. This is the messiest route because then it leaves THIS Jeannie and Neil more or less adrift in Time-Space without a way to truly get back to THEIR timeline, thus they become a loose end.
Which could have spin-off potential but at the same time, eh. The easiest way for the mess to be resolved is that once the Disruption Point is prevented, everything that happened is erased.
Interesting analysis.
By the way, Jeanie, you self centered, vengeful ass, if you’d like to do something useful for a change, poof your true Master, Neil, out of the bottle so he can take possession of it, have him ask–ASK–Genatte to poof herself into it, then poof all three of you, with the bottle, away to someplace safe; that is, anywhere out of Jean’s reach.